Dreyer Tree » Hester Susanna van Niekerk Dreyer (1924-2004)

Day of marriage March 8, 1927

• The temperature on March 8, 1927 was between 3.9 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • May 21 » Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
  • September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
  • November 12 » Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.

Day of death July 3, 2004

• The temperature on July 3, 2004 was between 12.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 30.7 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• In the year 2004: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
  • January 3 » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it one of the deadliest aviation accidents in Egyptian history.
  • January 12 » The world's largest ocean liner, RMSQueen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
  • May 2 » The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.
  • August 3 » The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11 attacks.
  • August 22 » Versions of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway.
  • September 29 » The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.

Source: Wikipedia

• 2001 » Johnny Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 2001 » Mordecai Richler, Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 2004 » Andriyan Nikolayev, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1929)
• 2005 » Alberto Lattuada, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 2005 » Gaylord Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 35th Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1916)
• 2006 » Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language (b. 1941)